Mustafa Tamer Başar[1] (born January 19, 1946[7]) is a control and game theorist who is the Swanlund Endowed Chair[8] and Center for Advanced Study[9][10] Professor[11] of Electrical and Computer Engineering[12] at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
in Electrical Engineering from Boğaziçi University (formerly known as Robert College[13]) at Bebek, in Istanbul, Turkey, in 1969, and M.S., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in engineering and applied science from Yale University, in 1970, 1971 and 1972, respectively.
He joined the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department in 1981.
[15] He was elected as a member of National Academy of Engineering in 2000 in Electronics, Communication & Information Systems Engineering and Industrial, Manufacturing & Operational Systems Engineering for the development of dynamic game theory and application to robust control of systems with uncertainty.
He has been awarded Honorary Doctor of Science degrees and Honorary Professorships from: His research interests include optimal, robust, and nonlinear control; large-scale systems; dynamic games; stochastic control; estimation theory; stochastic processes; and mathematical economics.